Putin has apparently read about Hitler's problems in 1944.

[rgbecker]

In this picture of Putin at his long table, indications are he doesn't want to risk being blown up by his aids.

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[Scrivener7]

1. Apparently he's terrified of Covid.

Doesn't mind his generals getting it though.

[gab13by13]

3. Is "Covid" Russian for bomb?

[Scrivener7]

7. Or 5th floor window, or sudden and unexplainable fatal stomach ailment which

also causes the skin to disintegrate.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. I read that visitors had to be quarantined for two weeks before seeing Putin.

Here's a post by BlueGreenLady (from Financial Times) that says about the same: https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216409847

[Walleye]

2. Mad Hatter. When they finish their tea they just move down the table for a clean cup.

[Hav]

4. Could be fear of Covid,

could be an extreme case of small man syndrome.
It appears absurd and hilarious though.

[doc03]

5. That is just plain weird nt

[empedocles]

11. Suggest complicated weird

[gab13by13]

6. Seriously,

that is one paranoid mother fucker. I think he knows that saying: even paranoid people have enemies.

[democratsruletheday]

8. Isolated at the table and in that room....

just like Russia is isolated in the International community right now.

[hlthe2b]

9. Still as a veteran KGB officer, I'm surprised he doesn't want to read the faces of his aids...

Goes along with my suspicion that his puffy "moon-face" may reflect high dose corticosteroid use for any number of conditions, rendering him immunocompromised and thus susceptible to COVID-19 and other infections from his staff.

[mitch96]

12. Or "he" does not anyone to get up close to his body double... da? .....nt

[lagomorph777]

13. LOL!

What a sissy.

[uponit7771]

14. K&R, ... and Putin is deathly scared of Covid

[haele]

15. Immunocompromised? Or just seriously paranoid.

One of the two. I'm guessing immunocompromised, myself. He's ensuring every "outsider" who is just meeting or visiting is at least 20 ft. away from him. I doubt he lets anyone but trusted servants, bodyguards, or doctors near him.

Haele

[LiberalFighter]

16. Oh....

If the person were as big as the person that would fit better in that chair the table wouldn't appear to be as long as it is now.